On the evening of Saturday, October 23, 2021, 21-year-old Tawon Billups was shot and killed on North Germantown Road in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The shooting occurred during a violent weekend in the city that produced two homicides within 24 hours. Billups, a 2019 graduate of Howard High School, was a father to a young daughter.

The Chattanooga Police Department identified a suspect and an arrest was made; the person taken into custody was reported to have a lengthy arrest record and was charged in connection with Billups’s death. Motive and many specifics about the events leading up to the shooting have not been made public, and no information about a trial or conviction is available.